Kimberly Manning Aker

Was blessed to have Kimberly as a long distance friend for a number of years. A truly radiant soul, talented, and giving. Will be forever in the hearts of the many who knew her.

I met Kimberly while serving on a local historic preservation board back in 1999. She showed me the "ropes" of dressing vintage, producing monthly lectures/programs and introducing me around to the community. Kimberly and I became fast friends and I have treasured every moment with her. For a time we worked together at our "day jobs" and she played matchmaker for me and my partner. Then she met her soul mate Jeff. I can remember the night they met, she was so smitten, and he was too. ...

Kimberley and I were diagnosed with breast cancer a matter of weeks apart. We had been online friends for several years prior to this unhappy event, but our diagnoses brought us closer together. An ocean apart, we each commiserated with the other on the rigours of our respective treatments, because we understood the horrors we both faced in a way that you can only understand through direct experience. When she messaged to say she had finished her treatment, I was overjoyed for her. At that...

Having been a friend of Kimberly for a number of years on social media we finally met at a vintage event at York in the UK a year or so ago. She was a lovely, with a vibrant personality. She will be sadly missed by myself and all who's lives she touched over the years. God bless you Kimberly Xx

Words alone cannot express enough, how much we miss you. Never far from our thoughts, you shall always be remembered & never forgotten. I will always be grateful of your love & support during some very difficult times...until we meet again, I hold a candlelight within my heart for you...

There are no words to say how I feel but I valued Kimberley´s friendship over the short time we knew her. I admired her kindness and fortitude, her literary achievements and passion for life. She was so loved by both family and friends. Even across the ocean she reached out to so many of us and shared her hopes, joys and sorrows. She will be so missed, but remembered especially this month by all her friends at Riviera Swing.

I met Kimberley when she came to England for a vintage event. Such a beautiful and vibrant lady and we connected over her love of Wales, with me being Welsh and also a love of literature as well as vintage. Such a tragic loss and my heart goes out to her dear husband Jeff and all her family and friends.

Kimberly was a ray of wonderful sunshine and I feel blessed to have called her friend. When I go for a walk amongst nature and see its beauty, I think of her especially when I see a flower bloom. She was wonderfully creative and very proud of her first book, rightly so, and was so giving of herself. Always so kind to me and thoughtful. A warrior who won her battle with cancer only for the treatment she was taking to cause her so much irreparable damage. Despite it all, she lived life to...